HTC and Motorola don’t slow down phones with old batteries like Apple does

Two of the biggest Android phone manufacturers - HTC and Motorola - have explicitly confirmed that they do not slow down the processor in their phones when the battery of the device gets old.

Last week, Apple officially admitted it is throttling the speed of the processor and slowing down iPhones with older batteries. Apple claims this is not a bug, but a feature. Up until last week, Apple had not publicly acknowledged slowing down older iPhones and it was not clear that the reason for slower iPhones was actually in the battery. Instead, the average user could just think that there is another reason for the slower phone and that they need to buy a new one. In reality, swapping the battery on an older device with a new one brings the iPhones back to their original speed.

All of this has spurred questions whether slowing down the processor of the phone based on its battery age is not a common practice among phone makers. We have reached out to Samsung, LG and Google for an official denial or confirmation and will update this article as soon as we get a reply.

"We do not throttle CPU performance based on older batteries."

Meanwhile, Motorola and HTC have both confirmed that this slowing down phones and throttling the processor when the battery of the device is old is not something they do.

At least it silenced some of the commentators on here - pretty hard to lie about how great the performance is on your aging handset when the OEM comes right out and admits to something like this. Piyath will be coming along any minute now to defend the faith....wait for it....

Wow, there is no excuse (for Apple) to not make the consumer aware of this. And I really have doubts that claiming it as a feature is valid as it seems that this is a spin response from their legal and marketing teams after they got caught.

All this does is really cause a perpetual cycle of yearly upgrades and continue capital for Apple inc. It is a brilliant business tactic but also a deceitful one because Apple hid this info from the public that they had an option to not upgrade but instead replace their battery have their device perform as new again.

Is it realy that easy to change battery in waterproof phone?
And what about warranty? We say goodbye to it? At least in my country, where 2 years warranty is standard for eletronics, it sure as hell doesn't sound like a good solution.

I am kinda worried to even try geekbench on my iPad Pro. With latest update, the battery drain is back (idle battery time is laughable now) and the device is just 2 years old.
+ It just started to "bark" on me whenever something starts to play. It's realy wierd, my guess is something is wrong with amplifier. It's fine when it's playing something, but if it "goes to sleep", it barks when it starts to play some sound.

My Mom have had several Motorola phones and maybe they don't slow down the phones but the phones does it by itself after a few barely optimized updates for its processor besides the phones starts to freez and restart more often. I think is better to maintain an older well optimized android version than the latest but slower.

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Hang on a second. So they admitted they don’t use software that does this.... which means one of two things, the phone doesn’t draw enough power from the battery to cause these shut downs or when the battery gets old the phone starts to randomly shut down, they never said “our phones don’t shut down when the battery ages”. What I see is two struggling companies spinning a story to make it about themselves.

Yeah htc doesn't. But look at what is happening to my htc one m9 now, while it still remains as fast as it was day one. The phone keeps on dying suddenly even at just 60 or 45% and it comes a surprise, it doesn't happen every single day but majority of the time I use it it does. Apple slowing down their devices is in the end for the benefit of their users. If it does more good than harm then why not

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